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Originally Posted by swampdragon
I think this is the culprit. I'm not seeing nearly enough errors in 1901, and I don't think I've seen a two base throwing error yet.
Edit: Let's take 1908. The fielding percentage that year was ,959. The OOTP fielding percentage was .987. That's less than one third of the errors actually committed during the real season, and I think it would be more than one baserunner per game. Something like thirty percent to one-third of the runs scored in 1908 were unearned. The difference is enough to reduce runs scored by 20% or so. I've done a bit of rounding and mental arithmetic instead of being careful, but I'm in the ballpark. As the actual fielding percentage goes up over the years, the discrepancy shrinks, which is what happened in the table in the original post.
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You are correct, I was reading Baseball-Reference incorrectly. 1.71 Team Errors per game in 1908 vs 0.53 Team Errors in 2022, so yes, would be about 2.4 more errors per game assuming everything else is the same (balls in play being the primary everything else in this situation).